JPH0823874A - Hard scale remover from fish body - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To increase the efficiency of removal of hard scales extending along the lateral line on a fish body such as horse mackerel. CONSTITUTION:Fish bodies F are held between pairs of holders 16a and 16b which are conveyed by conveyers 23a and 23b in the conveying direction. Individual holders 16a, 16b are provided with notches 34a, 34b so as to expose the hard scales extending the lateral line near the tail of the fish body F and the hard scales projecting through over the notches are cut off with rotary blades 18, 19 which are set on the way of the conveying route for the fish bodies.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention is suitable for continuously removing hard scales called so-called "Zeigo" or "swords" which are formed along the both sides of the tail of a horse mackerel. The present invention relates to a hard scale processing device for a fish body that can be carried out.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in FIG. 13, a fish body 1 which is a horse mackerel, for example, has hard scales 5 extending from a tail 2 to a head 4 along a lateral line 3 on both sides. The hard scales 5 project from the surrounding scales by about 3 to 5 mm, and the tips of the hard scales 5 are sharp and pointed into a beak shape. If they are mistakenly eaten, they will bite into the throat and are extremely difficult to remove.
Therefore, in school lunches, etc., it is obligatory to remove the hard scale 5.

Conventionally, an operator manually cuts off the hard scale 5 as described above. In such a manual work, even a skilled person has a processing speed of about 5 seconds / tail, and the processing efficiency is extremely poor.

Since the hard scale 5 is formed near the tail 2 of the fish body 1, the operator must hold the kitchen knife with one hand and hold the periphery of the hard scale 5 with the other hand. However, an inexperienced worker will hurt his / her finger with the kitchen knife and the hard scale 5, resulting in poor safety. Moreover, the hard scales 5 are extremely hard as compared with the scales around them, so that the kitchen knife must be re-sharpened about once per hour, which interrupts the work and results in poor processing efficiency of the fish.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for treating fish scales which can continuously remove a large number of fish scales in a short time.

[0006]

The present invention has a pair of holding members for holding a fish body having hard scales extending from the vicinity of the tail to the head side along the lateral line on both side surfaces from both side surfaces in the thickness direction thereof. , Each sandwiching member has a plurality of sandwiching means each having a notch so that the hard scale is exposed, and a traveling body that is driven to travel in a predetermined transport direction. The conveying means in which the nipping means is continuously provided and the cutting edge are respectively provided at predetermined mounting positions so as to be close to the conveying path of each portion of each nipping member where the notch is formed and face the upstream side in the conveying direction. A hard scale processing apparatus for a fish body, comprising a pair of cutting blades.

Further, according to the present invention, there is provided a pair of sandwiching members for sandwiching a fish body having hard scales extending from the vicinity of the tail portion along the lateral line to the head side on both side surfaces from both side surfaces in the thickness direction, and each sandwiching member includes Has a plurality of sandwiching means in which the notches are formed so that the hard scales are exposed, and a traveling body that is driven to travel in a predetermined transport direction, and each sandwiching means is continuous to this traveling body. And a pair of cutting blades that are respectively provided at predetermined mounting positions so that the conveying means and the blade tip are close to the conveying path of each portion of the sandwiching member where the notch is formed and face the upstream side in the conveying direction. And a head of the fish body from which the hard scales protruding from each notch by the pair of cutting blades are removed, the internal organs and the middle bones are removed, and the fish body processing means for processing the fish body into a fillet shape is included. Characteristic fish scales It is a management apparatus.

[0008]

According to the present invention, hard scales extending from the vicinity of the tail portion to the head side along the lateral lines are formed on both side surfaces of the fish body, and a pair of sandwiching members for cooking such fish body from both sides in the back-tail direction. A notch is formed in each of the notches so that the hard scales are exposed. The plurality of sandwiching means having such a configuration,
Provided in succession to a traveling body that is driven to travel in a predetermined transport direction, with the fish body sandwiched between the sandwiching members,
A fish body is conveyed by projecting a hard scale from the notch. A pair of cutting blades, each having a blade tip that is close to the transport path of the portion of the sandwiching means where the notch is formed and that faces the upstream side in the transport direction, are respectively provided at predetermined mounting positions such as the device main body. Therefore, in the fish body conveyed by the conveying means, the hard scales protruding from the notches are cut by the respective cutting blades, and thus the hard scales of the plurality of fish bodies can be continuously removed at high speed.

Further, according to the present invention, on both sides of the fish body,
A hard scale extending from the vicinity of the tail to the head side along the lateral line is formed, and a notch is formed in each of the pair of sandwiching members for cooking such a fish body from both sides in the dorsal tail direction so that the hard scale is exposed. To be done. The plurality of sandwiching means having such a configuration are continuously directed to the traveling body that is driven to travel in the predetermined transport direction, and the fish body is sandwiched between the sandwiching members, and the sandwiching means is provided with a hard scale. The fish body is conveyed by projecting. A pair of cutting blades, each having a blade tip that is close to the transport path of the portion of the sandwiching means where the notch is formed and that faces the upstream side in the transport direction, are respectively provided at predetermined mounting positions such as the device main body. Therefore, in the fish body conveyed by the conveying means, the hard scales protruding from the notches are cut by the respective cutting blades, and thus the hard scales of the plurality of fish bodies can be continuously removed at high speed. After that, the fish body from which the hard scales have been removed is processed into a fillet shape by removing the head, internal organs and mid-bones by the fish body processing means. In this way, a series of fish body processing operations can be performed automatically, so to speak, so that the operator only has to place the fish body between the respective holding members of the holding means, and the fillet processing of the fish body having hard scales can be performed at high speed. It becomes possible to carry out continuously.

[0010]

1 is a front view showing a hard scale processing apparatus 11 for a fish body according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a plan view of the hard scale processing apparatus 11 for a fish body seen from above in FIG. is there. The fish scale hard scale processing apparatus 11 of the present embodiment includes a base 12 and a base 1.
2, a conveying means 15 for conveying the fish body F, which is a horse mackerel, for example, from the starting end 13 side to the terminating end 14 side in a predetermined conveying direction A, and a pair of holding members 16a, 16b for holding the fish body F. And a plurality of sandwiching means 17 continuously provided in the carrying direction 15 along the carrying direction A.
And the rotary blades 18 and 19 which are a pair of cutting blades for cutting off the hard scales of the fish body F conveyed from the start end 13 side of the conveying means 15 to the downstream side of the bidirectional A by the holding means 17.

The conveying means 15 has a pair of start end side sprocket wheels 21a and 21b which are rotationally driven around a horizontal rotation axis line by the power from the motor M1 and a rotation axis line parallel to the respective start end side sprocket wheels 21a and 21b. A pair of terminal side sprocket wheels 2 which are rotationally driven.
2a, 22b and each sprocket wheel 21a on the starting end side,
21b and each sprocket wheel 22a, 22 on the terminal side
It includes a pair of transport chains 23a and 23b that are traveling bodies that are wound around and stretched between b.

A nipping member 16b below each nipping means 17 is fixed to each of the carrying chains 23a and 23b, and the upper nipping member 16a is open on the side of the starting end 13 and is carried to the downstream side in the carrying direction A. As it goes up, the upper holding member 16a is pressed from the back side thereof by the longitudinal guide member 24 to be closed, and the fish body F is put in a sandwiched state. The guide member 24 is made of, for example, a steel wire or a steel rod having a diameter of about φ5 to φ9 mm, extends linearly along the conveyance direction A on the most starting end 13 side, and the upper holding member 16 in the open state.
1 and the first guide portion 15 that supports a, smoothly curves to the front side (downward in FIG. 2) perpendicular to the paper surface of FIG. 1 as it goes to the downstream side in the transport direction A, and lowers in FIG. Second guide portion 26 that is smoothly curved in the vertical depth direction of the sheet of FIG. 2), and a straight line that is continuous with the second guide portion 26 and that extends to the vicinity of the rotary blade 18 that is arranged on the starting end 13 side toward the downstream side in the transport direction A 3rd guide part 27 of a shape. This third
The guide portion 27 guides the upper holding member 16a in a state of being pressed onto the lower holding member 16b.

A pressing member 28, which partially overlaps the downstream end of the third guide portion 27 in the transport direction A and extends substantially parallel to the transport direction A, is provided to extend to the vicinity of the terminal end 14. The holding member 28 is fixedly provided on the base 12, and the upper holding member is provided so that the fish body F held between the holding members 16a and 16b is not displaced by the rotational force of the rotary blades 18 and 19. Keep 16a pressed down.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken along the line III-III in FIG. The pair of upper and lower clamping members 16
a and 16b are recesses 29a and 2 corresponding to the shape of the fish body F.
9b respectively, and the end of the fish body F on the side of the head 30 is connected by a hinge 31 so as to be openable and closable in the directions of arrows B1 and B2. Each recess 29a, 29b is a tail 32 of the fish body F.
On the side, the tail portion 32 is opened with a gap so that the tail portion 32 can be inserted. At the end near the tail 32, the tail 3
2 from around 2 along the lateral lines 33a, 33b of the fish body 3
The notches 34a and 34b extending toward the 0 side are formed, and the hard scale 35 of the fish body F is formed from the notches 34a and 34b.
a and 35b are projected to the outside.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional view near the hard scale 35a protruding from the one notch 34a. Since the above-mentioned hard scales 35a and 35b are similar, one hard scale 35a will be described. This hard scale 35a is called a Zeigo or a sword, and is formed in a beak shape with a sharp tip, and extends from about the tail 32 side to the head 30 side along the lateral line of the fish body F for about 1/3 of the body length. Is formed to extend.
Such a hard scale 35a has a height H from the surrounding surface.
= About 3 to 5 mm is projected, and as shown by an imaginary line 36, the rotary blade 18 may be used to cut off a portion including the angularly pointed tip portion. At this time, cutout 3
If the width W of 4a is too large, the fish meat below the hard scales 35a will be cut off, and the yield will decrease. For this reason, as described above, the cutting is performed at the position indicated by the imaginary line 36 including the tip portion so that only the sharp and dangerous tip portion is cut off.

A tail holding member 37 for holding the tail portion 32 of the fish F protruding from the sandwiching members 16a and 16b on the rotary blade 18 is disposed on the rotary blade 18 arranged on the side of the starting end 13 in the carrying direction A. It is installed along. A tail holding member 38 for holding the tail 32 below the rotary blade 19 is provided below the rotary blade 19 arranged on the terminal end 14 side. When the hard scales 35a and 35b are cut by the rotary blades 18 and 19 by the tail holding members 37 and 38, the tail portions 32 of the fish F from the rotary blades 18 and 19 are cut.
Can be evacuated. Since the hard scales 35a and 35b are cut by the rotary blades 18 and 19 in the state where the tail portion 32 is retracted from the rotary blades 18 and 19 by the tail holding members 37 and 38 in this manner, the sandwiching is performed. Member 1
The thin portions 6a and 16b are formed in the vicinity of the notches 34a and 34b, so that the hard scales 35a,
Even in the case of a fish body having a small height H of 35b, the hard scales 35a and 35b can be reliably cut off in the vicinity of the tips thereof.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged perspective view showing the vicinity of the second guide portion 26 of the guide member 24. The holding member 16a above the holding means 17 has a curved portion 3 forming a recess 29a.
9a and a flat flange portion 40a connected to both ends of the curved portion 39a in the width direction, and the curved portion 39a is sandwiched by the sandwiching member 16b below the fish body F, and the head portion with respect to the flange portion 40a. Head-side portion 41a on the 30 side
Is deeper and the tail portion 42a near the tail portion 32 is formed shallower. The other lower sandwiching member 16b also has the same structure as the above-mentioned upper sandwiching member 16b, and the corresponding portions are provided with the same numbers and the letters b.

The area near the tail 32 of the fish body F is generally
Since the thickness is substantially the same regardless of the size, the depths of the curved portions 39a and 39b of the sandwiching members 16a and 16b with respect to the flange portions 40a and 40b are set to the head portion 41.
a and 41b are determined according to the thickness of the largest fish,
By making the depths of the tail portions 42a and 42b substantially the same, at least the vicinity of the tail 32 of the fish body F can be reliably held by the tail portions 42a and 42b of the holding members 16a and 16b, and the holding members can be securely held. 16a, 1
Displacement between 6b is prevented. In this way, the hard scales 35a, 35b can be reliably cut off, and it is not necessary to prepare a plurality of types of the holding members 16a, 16b according to the size of the fish body, and the number of parts can be small.

One rotary blade 18 arranged on the starting end 13 side
Cuts the hard scale 35b protruding from the notch 34b of the lower sandwiching member 16b, and the one rotary blade 19 arranged on the terminal end 14 side has the hard scale 35a protruding from the notch 34a of the upper sandwiching member 16b. Disconnect. Therefore, the rotary blades 18 and 19 are arranged such that the rotary blade 18 on the starting end 13 side is inclined downward and the rotary blade 19 on the terminal end 14 side is inclined upward at an angle of about 6 to 8 ° with respect to the horizontal plane. There is. The rotary blade 18 may be tilted upward and the rotary blade 19 may be tilted downward.

In the third guide portion 27 of the guide member 24, the first and second guide portions 25 and 26 are each made of one steel wire, whereas a plurality (four in this embodiment) are provided. Each hard scale 35a, 35b
At the cutting position of the upper clamping member 16 with a large pressing force.
It is possible to hold down a and 16b.

With the above structure, the motor M1 is driven and the transport chains 23a and 23b are driven to travel, and the lower holding member 16b is provided at the starting end 13 side.
The fish body F is manually placed on the
As the sheet is conveyed to the downstream side in the conveying direction A, the upper holding member 16a is guided while being supported by the first guide portion 25 of the guide member 24, and is guided by the second guide portion 26 in the closing direction in the arrow B2 direction. Then, the third guide portion 27 presses the clamping member 16 on the lower side, so that the clamping member 16a is automatically closed.

The sandwiching means 17 sandwiching the fish body F in this way is further transported toward the downstream side in the transport direction A, and the holding member 28 presses the tail-side portion 42a of the upper sandwiching member 16a, and the rotary blade. The hard scale 35a protruding from the upper notch 34a is cut by 18. Further, as the sandwiching means 17 is transported downstream in the transport direction A, the notch 34b of the other sandwiching member 16b.
The hard scale 35b protruding downward from is cut by the rotary blade 19, and when the holding means 17 passes through the pressing member 28, the upper holding member 16a is opened in the arrow B1 direction by a torsion spring (not shown), Lower clamping member 1
The fish body F from which the hard scales 35a and 35b on the 6b are cut off falls into a container (not shown) provided near the terminal end 14 and is collected. In this way, the hard scales 35a, 35 of the fish body F are
Since b can be cut out automatically, so to speak, the efficiency of the fish processing operation can be significantly improved. In the hard scale processing apparatus 11a of the present embodiment, for example, a fish body of 60 to 120 fish / min can be processed, and the processing efficiency is remarkably improved.

FIG. 6 is a partial perspective view showing a hard scale processing apparatus 11a for a fish body according to another embodiment of the present invention. In the present embodiment, in addition to the fish scale hard scale processing device 11 of the embodiment shown in FIGS.
The fish body processing means 48 for processing the fish body F from which 5a and 35b are removed into a fillet shape is included. The fish body processing means 48 comprises a pair of starting end side pulleys 49 driven around a vertical rotation axis.
a and 49b, a pair of end side pulleys 50a and 50b rotatable about the vertical rotation axis, and each start side pulley 49
a, 49b and a pair of conveyor belts 51 wound and stretched between the end side pulleys 50a, 50b.
a, 51b, and the conveyor belts 51a, 51b, which are provided on the conveyance path of the fish between the inner facing portions of the conveyor belts 51a, 51b, and are driven to rotate about a horizontal axis of rotation so that each conveyor belt 51
Abdominal incision rotary round blade 52 for cutting the abdomen of the fish body supplied between a and 51b in the cranio-caudal direction, and abdominal incision rotary round blade 5
2, a gating pulley 53 that is provided downstream of the gating pulley 53 in the transport direction C, is driven to rotate about a horizontal axis, and scrapes off the internal organs of the abdominal cavity of the fish body F; , Fish body F with internal organs removed
4 round rotary blades 54a to 54d for removing the middle bones, which cut the messenger to the vicinity of the root of the middle bones and separate the slag containing the middle bones into two fillets, and the conveying means of the hard scale processing device 11. Head cutting means 55 provided at the end 14 of 15 for cutting the head 31 of the fish body treated with the respective hard scales 35a, 35b.
And the fish body F whose head has been cut off from each starting end side pulley 49a,
Chute 5 for guiding between conveyor belts 51a and 51b of 49b
6 and.

The head cutting means 55 is arranged at the end 14 of the conveying means 35, and the fish body F dropped from the sandwiching means 17 in which the upper sandwiching member 16a is opened is further conveyed in the conveying direction A.
A conveyor belt 57 that conveys to the downstream side, a holding belt 58 that keeps the fish F on the conveyor belt 57 pressed from above, and a head that cuts the head 30 of the fish F between the conveyor belt 57 and the holding belt 58. And a rotary cutting blade 59 for part cutting. With such a head cutting means 55, the head 30
The fish body F, which has been cut off, falls on the chute 56, and due to the inclination of the chute 56, the start end side pulley 4
Transport belts 51a, 5 wound around 9a, 49b
It is supplied with the head side first and the abdomen 60 downward between 1b.

With the above-described structure, the hard scales 35a, 35b of the fish body F can be cut off, and the fillet from which the middle bones have been removed can be automatically carried out in a series of conveying routes, so to speak, fish body processing efficiency. Can be improved. The fish body processing means 48 is not limited to the configuration shown in FIG. 6, and an existing processing device called a fille machine may be used.

FIG. 7 is a simplified front view showing a hard scale processing apparatus 11b for fish bodies according to still another embodiment of the present invention.
In this embodiment, the two transfer means 63a and 63b are provided, one holding member 16a is continuously fixed to the transfer chain 64a of the upper transfer means 63a, and the transfer chain 64b of the lower transfer means 63b. The other sandwiching member 16b is continuously fixed to the upper sandwiching member 16a at the same interval, and other configurations are the same as those of the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 5 or the embodiment shown in FIG. It is the same.

Thus, the upper and lower two-stage conveying means 63a, 6
Since the holding members 16a and 16b are provided on the 3b so as to hold the fish F, the length of the apparatus in the carrying direction can be shortened and downsized as compared with the above-described embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a simplified front view showing a hard scale processing apparatus 11c for fish bodies according to still another embodiment of the present invention. It should be noted that this embodiment is similar to the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 5, and corresponding parts are designated by the same reference numerals. It should be noted that the holding means 67 is provided over the terminal end 14 of the conveying means 15 by reversing it in a U shape and extending downward.
7, the upper holding member 16a is conveyed in a closed state, and the upper rotary blade 18 cuts one hard scale 35a, and the lower rotary blade 19 cuts the other hard scale 35b. It With such a configuration, the rotary blades 18 and 19 can be tilted in the same direction, and the transport path length of the apparatus can be shortened to reduce the size.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing a holding means 17a according to still another embodiment of the present invention. In the above-described embodiment, one end portion in the longitudinal direction of each sandwiching member 16a, 16b is hinge 31.
However, in this embodiment, the holding members 1 are connected by
One side of 6a, 16b is connected by hinges 69a, 69b so that it can be angularly displaced. Torsional springs 70a, 70b for biasing the sandwiching members 16a, 16b in a direction in which they are separated from each other are attached to the hinges 69a, 69b. It is installed. When using such a pressing member 67, the guide member 24
Is unnecessary and the number of parts can be reduced.

FIG. 10 is a plan view showing a fish scale processing apparatus 11d according to still another embodiment of the present invention. The hard scale processing apparatus 11d for a fish body according to the present embodiment is fixed to the turntable 75 as a traveling body that is rotationally driven in the supply direction D around a vertical rotation axis and at a circumferential interval on the turntable 75. Holding means 76, and hard scales 35a, 35b of the fish body sandwiched by the holding means 76
Rotary blades 77 and 78 as cutting blades for respectively cutting
A contact member 80 for angularly displacing the holding means 76 around the axis of the shaft 79 in the direction of the arrow E, and an abdominal incision rotary round blade for cutting the abdomen 60 of the fish body F exposed from the holding means 76 in the cranio-caudal direction. 81 and a chute 84 for guiding the fish body F into the container 83
And

FIG. 11 shows the contact member 80 shown in FIG.
It is a perspective view of a part of the vicinity. The holding means 76 holds a pair of holding members 85a, 85b for holding the abdomen 60 of the fish body F in the state of being exposed in the longitudinal direction, and each holding member 85.
and a hinge 86 that connects the a and 85b to each other so as to be openable and closable. Similar to the above-mentioned sandwiching means 17 and 17a, the sandwiching members 85a and 85b are provided with notches 34a and 34b through which the hard scales 35a and 35b are exposed, and a fitting portion of the locking spring 87 fixed to the turntable 75. A fitting hole 59 into which 81 is fitted is formed. The fitting hole 89 is formed only in the upper holding member 85a.

The shaft 79 is fixed to the lower holding member 85b, and the fish body F is held by the holding means 76.
Is angularly displaced in the arrow E direction by contacting the contact member 80, the fitting portion of the locking spring 37 is fitted in the fitting hole 89, and the holding means 76 turns the longitudinal direction of the turntable 75. It can be supplied to the rotary abdominal incision rotary blade 81 in a so-called horizontal orientation along the transport direction D, which is the rotation direction of. Fish body F whose posture has been changed in this way
The head portion 30 faces the downstream side in the transport direction D and the tail portion 37.
The abdomen 60 is incised in a state of facing the upstream side in the transport direction D, and then falls on the chute 84. At this time, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, the operator 90 manually places the fish body F on the lower sandwiching member 85b, and the upper sandwiching member 85a held by the plurality of (two in this embodiment) holding members 91 is The pressing member 91 is the turntable 51.
By retracting or disappearing in the direction away from (upward in FIG. 11), the spring force of a torsion spring (not shown) causes angular displacement in the direction away from the lower holding member 85b and opens, and the fish body F has its abdomen 60 downward. Sandwiching member 85b
Since it partially projects from, it can be dropped onto the chute 84 by its own weight.

With the above-described structure, the worker 90 only has to place the fish body F on the lower holding member 85b at a predetermined work position, so to speak, the hard scales 85a, 85b and the abdomen of the fish body F are automatically opened. Can be processed.

FIG. 12 shows another embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 5, the hard scale processing apparatus 11e is provided with a sandwiching means 75 composed of a pair of sandwiching members 95a and 95b in the vertical direction on the turntable 94, and the fish body F is inserted between the sandwiching members 95a and 95b from above. In a state, a pair of rotary blades 9
The hard scales 35a and 35b may be cut off by 7,98. In this case, by bending the pressing member 99 outward in the radial direction of the turntable 94, the outer clamping member 95a opens in a direction away from the inner clamping member 95b by the spring force of a torsion spring (not shown), The fish body F can be dropped into the container 100 and collected.

[0035]

As described above, according to the present invention, hard scales can be automatically and continuously removed without manual work, and a plurality of fish bodies can be efficiently treated. .

Further, according to the present invention, the fish body from which the hard scales have been removed can be further head-cut to remove the internal organs and mid-bones and processed into a fillet-like shape. It can be performed continuously without manual work, and the efficiency of fish body work can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an apparatus for treating hard scales 11 of a fish body according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the fish hard scale processing apparatus 11 shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken along the section line III-III in FIG.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing the vicinity of a hard scale 35a of a fish body F.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a specific configuration of a holding means 17.

FIG. 6 is a fish scale processing apparatus 1 according to another embodiment of the present invention.
It is a one part perspective view which shows 1a.

FIG. 7 is a simplified front view showing a fish scale processing apparatus 11b according to still another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a simplified front view showing a fish scale processing apparatus 11c according to still another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing a holding means 17a according to still another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a plan view showing a fish scale processing apparatus 11d according to still another embodiment of the present invention.

11 is a partial perspective view showing the vicinity of the contact member 80 of the embodiment shown in FIG. 10 in an enlarged manner.

FIG. 12 is a partly simplified perspective view showing a hard scale processing device 11e for a fish body according to still another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a fish body 1 for explaining a conventional technique.

[Explanation of symbols]

11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d, 11e Hard scale processing device for fish 15: 63a, 63b Conveying means 16a, 16b; 85a, 85b Clamping member 17, 17a, 76, 96 Clamping means 18, 19; 97, 98 Rotation Blade 24 Guide member 28, 91, 99 Holding member 30 Head 32 Tail portion 33a, 33b Side line 34a, 34b Notch 35a, 35b Hard scale 41a, 41b Head portion 42a, 42b Tail portion 48 Fish body processing means 52, 81 Rotating round blade for abdominal incision 53 Gutting pulleys 54a to 54d Rotating round blade for removing middle bones 55 Head cutting means 59 Rotating round blade for head cutting 60 Abdomen F Fish body

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A pair of sandwiching members for sandwiching a fish body having hard scales extending from the vicinity of the tail along the lateral line to the head side on both side faces from both side surfaces in the thickness direction, and each sandwiching member includes:
It has a plurality of sandwiching means each having a notch so that the hard scales are exposed, and a traveling body that is driven to travel in a predetermined transport direction, and each sandwiching means is continuously provided on this traveling body. And a pair of cutting blades, each of which is provided at a predetermined mounting position so that the blade edge is close to the transport path of each portion of the sandwiching member where the notch is formed and faces the upstream side in the transport direction. A hard scale processing device for a fish body, which is characterized in that 2. A pair of sandwiching members for sandwiching a fish body having hard scales extending from the vicinity of the tail portion along the lateral line to the head side on both side surfaces from both side surfaces in the thickness direction, and each sandwiching member includes:
It has a plurality of sandwiching means each having a notch so that the hard scales are exposed, and a traveling body that is driven to travel in a predetermined transport direction, and each sandwiching means is continuously provided on this traveling body. And a pair of cutting blades, each of which is provided at a predetermined mounting position so that the blade edge is close to the transport path of each portion where the notch of each sandwiching member is formed and faces the upstream side in the transport direction, By removing the hard scale protruding from each notch by the pair of cutting blades, the head of the fish body, the internal organs and the mid-bone are removed,
A hard scale processing device for a fish body, comprising: a fish body processing means for processing the fish body into a fillet shape.